Reading But Not Writing Book Takeaways

By Mike Maddaloni on Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 08:51 PM with 2 comments

photo of books I have read but not written takeaways from

You've probably seen elsewhere online something similar to the picture atop this post: a stack of books, and it is usually accompanied with some text along with it saying that this is someone's reading list for the summer, fall, holiday break, vacation, hospital stay, etc., et. al., yada yada.

In my case, the picture above is not of books I have yet to read, rather it is of books I have already read. What's odd about that is that I pretty much always give away books after I read them and write takeaways from them that I share at this humble blog, but as you can extrapolate, I am a little behind on my writing... by almost a year.

Anytime I can sit down and read is a gift, especially when it's a paper book and not a screen. I have been good over the years with this cycle of reading and sharing, but part of the queue is a little backed up right now.

So I am sharing the spines of these worthy reads, in the hopes that I can use it as a motivation to write more. Feel free to add a comment of encouragement to this post.

Deconstructing Reading and Writing

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson


This is from The Hot Iron, a journal on business and technology by Mike Maddaloni.


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Mike, if you were to recommend just one of these books, which would it be?

Picture of AnthonyM Comment by AnthonyM
on 10/10/25 at 08:44 AM
 


@AnthonyM - Where I enjoyed most all of these, I have to recommend The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. It was the first book of this genre I have read, and apparently was the inspiration for the movie The Big Lebowski!

mp/m

Picture of Mike Maddaloni Comment by Mike Maddaloni
on 10/13/25 at 10:36 PM
 



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